...pageants being done, euery mate sorts to his mate, euery one bringcs another homeward of their way verve freendly, and in their secret conclaues (couertly) they play the Sodomits, or worse. And these be the fruits of Playes or Enterluds for the most part. And wheras you say there are...

...Suche winckinge and glancinge of wanton eyes, and the like, is vsed, as is wonderfull to behold. Then, these goodly pageants being done, euery mate sorts...secret conclaues (couertly) they play the Sodomits, or worse. (1877, 1: 144) Stubbes urges his readers to 'marke' the spectators, whose acts are 'wonderfull...

...mischief e."19 Phillip Stubbes complains that after a stage play "every mate sorts to his mate, every one bringes another homeward of their way verye freendly, and in their secret conclaves (covertly) they play the Sodomits, or worse."20 Cocke also notes that these sexually undiscriminating...

...pageants being done, euery mate sorts to his mate, euery one bringes another homeward of their waye verye freendly, and in their secret conclaues (couertly) they play the Sodomits, or worse."106 In a period when the nature of the household was changing, the addition of a new kind of...

...theirs thematically and structurally, helps put their logic into perspective. According to Stubbes, "Than, these goodly pageants being done, euery mate...secret conclaues (couertly) they play the Sodomits, or worse. And these be the fruits of plays and Enterluds for the most part."3 For Rainoldes stage plays...